As a side note, according to the Santa Barbara County website, the Santa Barbara Arts Commission does indeed exist... but has no web site. Pity.
It's not just you. I've been immensely irritated by an awful lot of not very bright people lately. Somebody must have picked up a rock somewhere, and they all came a-scurryin' out.
I hate crap like this. I’m just an editor. I work on books. Sometimes I buy them. That’s all.
I get some degree of that bizarre pedestal-placing myself, and all I do is run a crappy online 'zine. I can only imagine how irritating it must get for folks like you who edit real books that people will actually read.
Truman finished that war and started one in Korea, North Korea never attacked us. From 1950-1953, 55,000 lives were lost,an average of 18,333 per year.
Both South Korea and the United Nations requested our presence in Korea; several other UN nations sent (and lost) troops.
John F. Kennedy started the Vietnam conflict in 1962. Vietnam never attacked us. Johnson turned Vietnam into a quagmire. From 1965-1975, 58,000 lives were lost, an average of 5,800 per year.
Dwight Eisenhower promised troops to Vietnam in 1954. Johnson certainly escalated Vietnam, but Nixon continued his policies for several years.
Clinton went to war in Bosnia without UN or French consent. Bosnia never attacked us. He was offered Osama bin Laden’s head on a platter three times by Sudan and did nothing. Osama has attacked us on multiple occasions.
Clinton did not commit ground troops. He also tried on multiple occasions to capture or kill bin Laden, but was (a) trying to follow U.S. law as it pertains to assasinations and (b) was accused of "wagging the dog" by conservatives.
In the two years since terrorists attacked us, President Bush has liberated two countries, crushed the Taliban, crippled al-Qaida. Put nuclear inspectors in Libya, Iran and North Korea without firing a shot, and captured a terrorist who slaughtered 300,000 of his own people.
Mr Bush has failed to provide adequate funding or support to Afghanistan, allowing a resurgence of the Taliban and refusing to rebuild a country that teeters dangerously close to anarchy.
He continues to insist on a handover of power in Iraq on June 30 this year which is likely to lead to civil war.
Clinton had nuclear inspectors in N. Korea, the IAEA is responsible for the inspectors in Iran, and Libya entered secret talks with Britain (not the U.S.) long before the recent public events.
We lost 600 soldiers, an average of 300 a year. Bush did all this abroad while not allowing another terrorist attack at home. Worst president in history? Come on!
We've lost 600 soldiers in Iraq alone, and thousands have been maimed. Bush has, indeed, allowed the largest terrorist attack in U.S. history; they tend to wait a while before another major operation, victory cannot be declared in this respect.
Further, the Vietnam War had relatively light casualties in the first few years as well. A five- or ten-year presence in Iraq will probably result in tens of thousands of deaths and will likely require a new draft.
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